[Python-Dev] "setuptools has divided the Python community"

[Barry Warsaw]

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On Mar 26, 2009, at 3:07 PM, Olemis Lang wrote:

> On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 2:52 PM, Barry Warsaw <barry at python.org>  
> wrote:
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>> On Mar 26, 2009, at 2:43 PM, Olemis Lang wrote:
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>>>>>> One thing that /would/ be helpful though is the ability to list  
>>>>>> all the
>>>>>> resources under a specific package path.  This is (I think) one  
>>>>>> use
>>>>>> case
>>>>>> that pkg_resource fails to support and it's the one place that  
>>>>>> I've had
>>>>>> to
>>>>>> drop down to file system introspection.
>>>>>>
>>>
>>> Really ... ? What are all these for ?
>>
>> E.g. find all the doctests under foo.bar.docs
>>
>
> Could you explain this a little more pls ? You mean ... using doctest
> finders in a module (even inside a zip file ;) that's already loaded ?
>
> Sure ... else I dont understand ...

Here's a concrete example.  I have a bunch of .sql files inside the  
mailman.database package.  Their file names encode a sort order.  I  
want to load each one in order and apply them to my database.  I'd  
like to be able to find all these .sql files (which are intermixed  
with .py files in the same package) without having to use os.listdir()  
because that forces the package to live on the file system.

Barry

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